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"...Unfortunately, policy-making has never been a strong suit of the health promotion community. Driven by behaviourist tendencies, many health promoters attempt to apply social psychological models to political problems. They often deny or reject the vast body of knowledge accumulated in the political sciences that would explain systems rather than individual driven power exchanges.
More than Healthy Public Policy ever has, HiAP seems to generate some real traction – it connects well to global discourses around the social determinants of health, health equity, and Universal Health Coverage, although this full potential is still to be attained in Australia. Elsewhere, inventories and manuals are published under the HiAP aegis. In the United States, a comprehensive guide for local governments was published. The Rockefeller Foundation and WHO supported the development of HiAP analyses in the African, South-East Asian, and Western Pacific regions..." Read more
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